The tragedy that's unfolding is shed in an even clearer light when we expand the stats series to include the longer term, in this case 5 years.
In the past 5 years (dating back to August 25 2006, a date I took from Google Finance), these are the loss numbers for financials, as taken at noon, August 19 2011:
Bank of America : - 86.68%
Citigroup: -94.33%
Morgan Stanley: -70.72%
Keycorp: -83.46%
Fifth Third Bancorp: -76.06%
Barclays: - 76.85%
RBS: -96.83%
Société Générale: -83.57%
BNP Paribas: 60.64%
Crédit Agricole: -81.39%
UBS: -75.27%
Credit Suisse: -52.92%
Deutsche Bank: -65.26%
The numbers are made even more poignant when we look at losses at the Dow and the S&P in the same time period.
Dow Jones: -3.97%
S&P 500: -12.81%